Bottom line is that Michelle, like any new artist these days will last as long as her record companies want to promote her.
If, and only if, she has the talent to keep in the "big time" and has the songwriters and musicians and producers behind her (again courtesy of the record company) will she build a big enough fan base where over time she can survive with minimal publicity and promotion.
Compare Meats situation with Polydor - he gets little promotion from them really compared to many artists today, and as a consequence only gets mediocre chart success in terms of sales....yet he still manages to perform sell out tours. Will Michelle be doing the same in 25+yrs time? Unlikely.
I only caught two snippets of the whole of pop idol (I've far better things to be doing with my time than being told who to like by TV) one of the snippets was right at the start when Michelle was being auditioned and the "judges" were proclaiming that she'd not make it as "she may have the voice but she didn't have the looks of a pop idol and then tonight they've carried out a complete 180 and are all saying how glad they are she was in the final becuase she was different - - - hypocrites the lot of them!!
AndyK
... climbing off his soapbox now.
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